Well, sometimes you really DO have good luck. I was standing in the grocery store line a year and a half ago. Things were moving slowly, so I took the newspaper in my cart and opened up the car classifieds section and skimmed it. Somehow the words "1970 Oldsmobile Toronado" just jumped out at me. Turned out the car was only 15 miles away, so I took a look that evening, drove it around the block, and bought it the next day. An Air Force colonel had bought it new for his wife. He drove it after she died, and he had just recently died himself. All in all, they took very good care of the car, except for the last several years of benign neglect. He left the car to his home nurse who lived a couple of blocks away from him, with instructions to "sell it to someone who will appreciate it."  That someone turned out to be me.  However, driving it home was an experience. I had my neighbor follow me for several reasons--the tires on the right side were incredibly cracked from sun exposure in the carport where it had been parked, none of the taillights worked (water had corroded all the sockets), and I had just added a pint of brake fluid to the almost-dry master cylinder. I stopped at the gas station to fuel up, put air in the almost flat tires, and hoped they wouldn't blow out on the way home. But, everything turned out okay, and the car has become my regular driver. It doesn't have the crisp handling of the '66, but it's cushy and quiet, and a very pleasant place to be. Azure Blue (baby blue) exterior with a light metallic blue cloth interior. Strangely, it doesn't have power windows, even though it does have a lot of typical options--upgraded interior, power locks and seat, tilt/tele wheel, air conditioning, rear window defroster, and AM/FM stereo. I bought it with 93,000 miles on it and have added more than 11,000 since then. Besides the usual tune-up parts and all new belts and hoses,  some of the things I have done are:
flushed the transmission fluid,
converted it to electronic ignition and an internally-regulated alternator,
added an electric power trunk release found in a junkyard,
added chrome Toro wheels (with '66 center caps),
put in a new AC compressor, drier, and condenser, and converted the AC to R134,
replaced the thermostat, fuel pump, and hot water valve as preventive maintenance
replaced the master cylinder and rear wheel cylinders,
replaced the tires and battery,
installed gas shocks in the rear and KYB gas shocks in front,
replaced the horn relay,
replaced all the exterior lights and 95% of the interior ones,
added a radiator overflow tank,
installed urethane swaybar bushings and new endlinks,
added a 3rd brake light in the rear window,
rebuilt and installed a correct '70 Toro carburetor,
added an NOS righthand outside mirror and an auto-dimming mirror inside,
replaced the radiator, water pump, and windshield washer pump
removed the rear bumper and completely re-wired and sealed the taillights,
gained some legroom by relocating the front seat back an inch using the second set of holes in the mounting brackets.

I'm a freak about reliability. Breakdowns are a drag, and prevention is the best medicine.  A lot of the things I've done were to stop problems before they occurred.  Now it not only looks great, but is comfortable and reliable, too. I've driven it several times to my sister's house 500 miles away, and I wouldn't hesitate to drive it across the country. There are still some things to do, of course, and new ones will crop up over time.

And, I discovered something fun--the fellow who owns the local Olds dealership, Jim Stohlman, saw it and said "Hey, I think that was my brother's car".  When he was a young kid, his father owned the dealership. His entire family drove Azure Blue 1970 Oldsmobiles for a few months and then sold them. His brother had the Toro, and this car still had the dealer's badge on it thirty years later. It's a small world!